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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Interestingly, kids who are not in AAP but advanced in math and not in feeder schools like Franklin etc. got in. I know a few. I’m sure they are very smart but also makes me wonder the point of our kids being in AAP and going to schools like Carson, Cooper etc. [/quote]

People have been posting for ages that the only thing in AAP that matters in the math. Kids in Advanced Math do just fine and can get into TJ. The rest of AAP really isn’t a big deal. My kid deferred AAP until they got to Carson, they took Advanced Math in ES, and was accepted into TJ. [/quote]

Dp. Why did your child defer? Curious.

People say only math matters, but many also say how great the centers are and how much better the quality is in a center class of only AAP kids. I can see why some parents would question the latter. [/quote]

DC was in a language immersion program that we loved. LI is pretty similar to AAP in that there are more involved parents that select LI for their kids. This leads to more parental involvement at school and with academics at home most of the time.

As for Centers, people have reasons for saying that their choice to send their kid to the Center was the best thing in the world for all the reasons that they list. They made a choice t move their kid from established relationships and closer to home to the Center. Not too many are going to say that was a bad choice. About half the kids at our base school that moved to the Center returned to the base school. The social situation at the Center was hard, kids had already established relationships and it is harder to get together when a parent has to drive you both ways. Most of the families that returned to our base school reported that there were no birthday invites or play date invites. They did not think that the course work was all that different then what their kids got at the base school.

Some families loved the move because their kids were more academically orientated then the kids in the non-LI class and they were struggling to fit in. The non-LI class tended to have kids whose parents didn't think their kid could handle the language and kids who dropped out of LI because it wasn't a good fit. A good number of the kids I knew who moved and loved the Center had moved to the school after first grade so they couldn't join the LI program.

The experience depends on the kid. There are smart kids who are not interested in academics. THye can keep up with AAP without an issue but they are more into sports, video games, more "typical" kid stuff and they find the more academically focused class at the Center less inviting. There are kids who are more academically focused who love the Center class because there are more kids like them in the class.

In the end, my kid joined the AAP program in MS and has had 0 issues. Straight A's in AAP classes, an A in A1H and holding an A in Geometry. THey continued with their language in MS and has held an A in that class. They were not behind the AAP kids from the Center in any of the subjects. The only area that a parent needs to really worry about is Advanced Math because it is the path to A1H in 6th or 7th grade.

The exception to the rule, in my mind, are kids at Title 1 schools. There is less of a peer group at Title 1 schools, because fewer kids have active parents at home reading to them and preparing them for school. For kids who score high on the tests and are a bit behind, LIV is a way to provide those kids a chance to be in an environment where their intelligence can be nurtured and drawn out with support from the teacher in a way that they will not thrive in a regular class room with kids who are years behind. But the MC and UMC schools have more established peer groups with more kids who are ahead to advanced.

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